Catasetum albovirens Barb.Rodr. 1877 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Convergentes Photo courtesy of © Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Common Name or Meaning The White and Green Catasetum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Para state of Brazil near the coast in an area that does not experience a dry season, as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with curved, sulcate and rugose with age pseudobulbs enveloped by shaggy old sheaths and carrying 6, elliptic-lanceolate, very thick and leathery, plicate, 3 nerved, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal to just above the base, erect then arching, to 16" [40 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb and carrying small non-resupinate flowers.

Very similar to and often cited as a synonym of C lemosii but current thought is that they are 2 distinct species.

Similar to C fuchsii, C lemosii and C mattogrossa

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide;

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